Nearest Quotes

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. - Adelbert Von Chamisso

A movie star seemed simply like the nearest equivalent we've got, we who live blessedly free of a monarchy, to that sense of the human form exalted, the life made fabulous simply by who and what the person is. - Michael Cunningham

A good friend is my nearest relation. - Thomas Fuller

A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. - Lord Greville

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. - James I Of England

[When he was 15 and started] Eragon, ... I didn't have a lot to do. Dad felt I was too young to go to college; I didn't have a job, and the nearest town was some 20 miles away. I needed a way of entertaining myself. Writing was what I settled on. - Christopher Paolini

[The house is, in fact, something of a shrine to the passion that has consumed Corrigan's life, from her literature-saturated childhood in Sunnyside through her current career as a teacher and critic (in addition to her NPR gig, she pens a column on mysteries for The Washington Post and reviews for other publications, including Newsday). As she confesses in the just-published] Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books ... When I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book. - Random House